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Before you start to congratulate me, let me explain. I have been playing around with all the different viewers recently, and exploring some of the other "grids" available out there. I had a long talk with a friend about inWorldz for example, and even spent some time on OSGrid. It was strangely reminiscent of my early days in SL, but it did have an air of excitement to it.

During my chat, I mentioned how great it would be to have a SIM that I could load on my home network to build stuff on. I was promptly given a link to such a beast! I could not believe it!

Of course I downloaded it right away! 700megs and 1 burned CD later, I booted up one of the "spare" computers I had laying around, and VIOLA! I had my very own SIM!

Since I use the Rainbow and Imprudence viewers almost exclusively, it was very easy to connect to my new SIM! A quick login, and BOOM! There I was, my own island in the world. All those prims and room, JUST FOR ME!

Now granted, this little world is pretty darn small. This SIM is not connected to anything, so all I can do is walk around. Even that was a little sketchy. I mean, it IS OpenSIM.

Don't get me wrong, I completely support OpenSIM. It just is not up to SL status yet but I have no doubt it will get there someday. When someday will be here, I have no idea. But I like that it is completely open sourced, so if other open source projects are any indication, at some point it will really start to take off.

I was thinking about what this could mean. Imagine you are content creator, and you have your own private sim you can build on, upload textures too for testing, and all without any charges. I am not sure there is a way to transfer stuff from OpenSIM over to SL just yet (I have not researched it much), but I would say if there is not, I bet that eventually there will be. The possibilities are really amazing.

So while I actually DO have my own private SIM, it is kinda like owning the same car you had when you first got your license to drive. Definitely some fond memories of those times, but not sure I would use it for everyday stuff...YET!

For those of you who like to see what might be possible, and an extra computer laying around, here is the link to this neat little project.